The pair were due to marry in May. The funeral for Martina Kusnirova was held on Friday. She was buried in her wedding gown in a ceremony attended by hundreds of mourners in the northern town of Gregorovce.

Kuciak’s funeral will be held on Saturday in Stiavnik, close to the Czech border.

In his investigation, Kuciak alleged that Italian businessmen with ties to the feared Calabrian organised crime syndicate ‘Ndrangheta had settled in eastern Slovakia, and spent years embezzling EU funds for this relatively poor region on the border with Ukraine

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Prime Minister Robert Fico was the target of some of the protesters

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Kuciak will be laid to rest on Saturday

One of the men he named was Antonino Vadala, who was among those arrested on Thursday.

This is the first killing of a journalist in Slovakia’s history.

Prime Minister Fico has offered a €1m ($1.2m; £890,000) reward for anyone who comes forward with information about the case.

He has also regularly attacked journalists in the past, calling them “dirty, anti-Slovak whores” and “slimy snakes”.

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